V4 - Poetry week 48

Today's objectives
1) Understanding & analysis of 
  • This Poem - Elma Mitchell
  • Funeral Blues - W.H. Auden

2) Understanding of literary devices (metaphor/symbolism/setting/irony/hyperbole/imagery)
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Today's objectives
1) Understanding & analysis of 
  • This Poem - Elma Mitchell
  • Funeral Blues - W.H. Auden

2) Understanding of literary devices (metaphor/symbolism/setting/irony/hyperbole/imagery)

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Literary Devices
Last time:
"A Good Poem" - Robert McGough

Literary devices:
  • Alliteration
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Personification

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This Poem - Elma Mitchell 
We'll discuss the following literary devices in the poem: 
a) metaphor 
b) extended metaphor 
c) irony 
d) repetition


First: What do think this poem means?






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    Metaphor
    A literary device/figure of speech that makes an implicit (implied/hidden) comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.



    COMMON METAPHORS
    •  My brother is the black sheep of the family -> he is neither a sheep nor is he black BUT a black sheep stands out from a herd of sheep/could be separate from the herd and not included.

    • My sister was boiling mad -> she's not actually boiling, but her reaction is quite heated/at its peak/"burns" people

    • She's a breath of fresh air -> she's not really fresh air, but she is a refreshing change that does good/inspires

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    Extended metaphor
    An “extended metaphor”  is an implicit comparison between two unrelated things that continues throughout sentences in a paragraph, a complete paragraph, or lines in a poem.


    Q 1) "This Poem" (Elma Mitchell) contains an extended metaphor. The poet makes an implicit comparison between a poem and what? Why does he do this?


    Q 2) Can you mention some of the lines that are part of this metaphor?

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    Irony 
    1) Situational irony: when the opposite happens of what you expected
    2) Verbal irony: when the narrator means the opposite of what he says




    Q. Can you find an example of verbal irony in "This Poem" by Elma Mitchell?

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    Repetition


    Q. 1) Why does the narrator repete the words starting with "un-"? What kind of feeling does this give you?




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    Other literary devices 



    Q. Can you find any other literary devices in the poem?




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    Funeral Blues - W.H. Auden
    • Well-known poem 

    • Elegy
          poem in the form of elegiac couplets,
         written in honor of someone deceased. 
         4 stanzas (=group of lines formin a unit in a poem), 4 lines per stanza, 
         fixed rhyme scheme AABB

    We'll discuss the following literary devices in the poem:
    a) setting
    b) symbolism 
    c) imagery 
    d) hyperbole
    e) assonance

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    Setting
    Time and place where the action of the poem happens



    What is the setting of "Funeral Blues"?

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    Symbolism
     An object representing another, to give an entirely different meaning that is 
    much deeper/ more significant.




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    Symbolism in Funeral Blues

    Q 1) What does it mean to "Stop the Clock", "Cut off the phone", "Silence the piano" ?

    Q 2) What do "black cotton gloves" symbolize?

    Q 3) "He was my North, my South, my East and West" - what do these words symbolize?




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    Imagery
    The use of particular words that create a visual representation of ideas in our minds (symbols, metaphors, simile)


    Q: What comes to mind when you hear the words "blues", "moaning", and "muffled drum"?

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    Hyperbole 
    A hyperbole is an unreal exaggeration to emphasize a real situation.


    Common hyperboles (every-day use):
    1. She's so heavy, she weighs a ton!
    2. I'm dying of shame!
    3. What a dumb action: you must have a pea-sized brain!
    4. It took him ages to solve the problem

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    Hyperbole in Funeral Blues
    A hyperbole is an unreal exaggeration to emphasize a real situation.



    Q 1) What are examples of hyperboles in the poem "Funeral Blues"?

    Q 2) Can you find a stanza (= unified group of lines in a poem)  with only hyperboles? 

    Q 3) What kind of feeling does exaggeration create? Which grammatical form does the narrator use in the first two stanzas to help create this kind of feeling?

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      Assonance
      The repetition of a vowel sound or diphthong in non-rhyming words

      Q. Can you find an example of a vowel sound that is repeated in the stanzas of "Funeral Blues"?




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      Other literary devices 



      Q. Can you find any other literary devices in the poem?




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      Discuss 
      Discuss in groups:


      Which one of the three poems is most cleverly written?
      (think of literary devices)

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